Hello John Scott, I just tried to reproduce the issue. As far as I see this issue is known upstream as issue [openalpr#692]. That one got closed with following hint:
Fixed by change in tesseract tesseract-ocr/tesseract#1669 In [tesseract#1665]/[tesseract#1669] a fix got commited for tesseract 4. As far as I see would be that fix included in tesseract 4.00~git2844-607e8fd8-2, currently waiting to enter testing. Kind regards, Bernhard [openalpr#692] https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr/issues/692 [tesseract#1665] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/1665 [tesseract#1669] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/1669